Paramita Dhar

Interpreting Divergent Child Obesity Surveillance Signals During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Parent-Reported NSCH and Measured NHANES, United States, 2016–2023

This study assessed whether parent-reported national surveillance identified the change in child obesity that measured surveillance indicated across the COVID-19 pandemic. Using six waves of the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH; 2016–2023; n = 153,656) and two National...